Summary: To service customer vehicles in a professional and timely manner by performing the following duties.

Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Use all safety related PPE such as gloves, safety glasses and tire cages while doing any work.
• Raise vehicles using hydraulic jacks
• Unbolt wheels from vehicles and remove them, using lug wrenches and other hand and power tools.
• Separate tires from wheels, using rubber mallets and metal bars or mechanical tire changers.
• Inspect tire casings for defects, such as holes and tears.
• Seal punctures in tubeless tires by inserting adhesive material and expanding rubber plugs into punctures, using hand tools.
• Reassemble tires onto wheels.
• Identify and inflate tires correctly for the size and ply.
• Place wheels on balancing machines to determine counterweights required to balance wheels.
• Hammer required counterweights onto rims of wheels.
• Remount wheels onto vehicles.
• Locate punctures in tubeless tires by visual inspection or by immersing inflated tires in water baths and observing air bubbles.
• Replace valve stems and remove puncturing objects.
• Rotate tires to different positions on vehicles, using hand tools.
• Assist mechanics and perform other duties as directed.
• Inflate inner tubes and immerse them in water to locate leaks.
• Clean sides of whitewall tires.
• Prepare rims and wheel drums for reassembly by scraping, grinding, or sandblasting.

• Reliability - The trait of being dependable and trustworthy.

  Safety Awareness - Ability to identify and correct conditions that affect employee safety.

  Safety Conscious - Employee must be safety conscious work in a safe manner using all required PPE.

  Schedule Flexibility - Employee must be flexible on scheduled hours realizing that business hours are dictated by customer needs and can run past scheduled ending times or start before scheduled beginning times.

  Working Under Pressure - Ability to complete assigned tasks under stressful situations.